Croatia: emrgency, 7825 fires from January

56.000 hectares of vegetation destroyed

(ANSAmed) - ZAGREB, August 20 - Croatia, affected
by a wave of scorching heat, is still experiencing a wildfire
emergency, with flames that flare in various parts of the
Dalmatian coast and in the interior forest regions.

ßßß Since yesterday, about 200 firefighters backed by three
Canadair, are engaged in trying to extinguish a large fire in
&#352;ibenik region, along the Adriatic coast, the last of the
previous forty outbreaks that have been raging across the
country over the last week.

Civil Defence has announced today that from the beginning of
the year in Croatia 7,825 fires have erupted, 1,566 more than
the same period last year, with the destruction of 56 thousand
hectares of vegetation.